West Blackdown Model Gliding Club

Good might be stretching it a little, I for one enjoyed an good afternoons flying at Bidwell. The conditions where light with the wind at about 8-10 mph eastly.

Ted and Dave where already setup and flying when I arrived and Steve Clark arrived shortly after. Steve and Ted seemed to be getting the best of the flying, Ted with his Elan and Steve with his 3 meter moldie.

The 2010 AGM was held on Wednesday 1st December at the Sampford Peverell Village Hall.

The full minutes of the meeting will be posted at some point in the near  future:

• Club fee will remain at £10 for 2011 and the BMFA membership is £29
• Steve Thorne was elected Chairman
• John Hacker was elected Secretary
• Gareth Davis was elected Membership Secretary and Honorary Treasurer
• The Arther Withers Trophy was awarded to Pete Guyan in recognition of his years service as Treasurer
• Pete Guyan won the £50 raffle prize
• Steve Thorne won the build and fly

Build and fly competitors after a close match

This years AGM will be  at 19:30 on Wednesday 1st December at Sampford Peverell Village hall.

The running order will something close to:

1. The meeting, Officers reports, any club business
2. Election of officers for the following year
3. Raffle – Any donations for prizes is always appreciated
4. Presentation of the Arther Withers ward -> see below
5. Fish and chip super (no expense spared)
6. Build and fly

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Hoping to have an informal club meeting at the holywell on the 22nd of October, it’s open to all members, but I do need to give the pub an idea of the numbers for some food.

The Holywell 19:30 on 22nd October

Hope to see you all there.

A glorious sunday for flat field, but not at are usually field. The normal field hasn’t been cut yet and probably won’t be for good couple of weeks. Thankfully Mr Auckland managed to pull a field out from under his hat at the 11th hour. The field is on the Millverton road out of Wellington and quite simply massive, the main bulk of the field is given over to corn, but there is a generous border cut all the way around for point to point horse racing (apparently).

Turn out was:

• Ted
• Dave
• Phil
• Peter
• John
• Me (Gareth)

Only being six in number didn’t stop us from setting up both bungee’s and the club winch.

The flying was good, well it was at least for 30 minutes I was actually flying for until my pass expired. Ted maiden’d his new giant electric toy only to break it a couple of minutes later (apparently manufactor’s glue wasn’t up to the job).

For my part I had a couple of nice flights and learnt the lessen that it’s better to go and get the small normal sized bungee rather than try a 2 meter floater on the uber monster bungee. Boy does it go up quick on that thing.